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Kanji Detail for 芥 - "mustard, small, humble"
芥
- Meaning
芥 means "mustard, small, humble."
Mustard - A plant of the cabbage family; the condiment made from its seeds.
Tiny trash - Small debris; dust.
Something small - Trivial things; insignificant matters.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
mustard; rape; dust; trash; rubbish
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
mustard plant; mustard; tiny
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
see 芥藍|芥蓝[gai4 lan2]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
mustard, broccoli
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vegetable plant. Leaves are rough with notches. Stem and leaves are edible. Also good for making pickles. Blooms small yellow flowers in late spring. Produces pods. Seeds are like millet grains. Extremely pungent in taste. Used in cuisine as flavoring. Called 芥末 (mustard). | Small things are called 芥. Such as 纖芥 (tiny bit). | Lowly things are called 芥. Such as 草芥 (weeds).
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